Young Women's Camp

Welcome Back from Young Women's Camp!!!  I LOVE Young Women's Camp. This is the first year I've been in a while...about 4 years. I missed it. Our Stake does a Stake camp every year and it is very successful. The divide the girls up by age group/camp level and they stay with those groups the whole time at camp. They do not meet together for ward time except for Friday night when the Bishops come up to meet with their young women. It is really nice because the girls get to meet friends their ages and they get to work on their levels together the whole week. When you are asked to serve at camp, it is a calling issued from the Stake. I was called this year to be a cook. It was a TON of work. Posted below are a few pix of the camp and the kitchen.
This is the cooks cabin. We were one of the few groups that got to sleep in a cabin...and might I add....it had its perks and its downfalls. :D

Wildflowers brought up just to beautify our cabin

So this is the inside of our cabin..one room slept 5 and the other room slept 3. My bunk mates were fabulous women who all seems to snore a great deal. I do not deal with snoring very well and had no place to escape to so as a result, I spent most nights not falling asleep until after midnight..which may not seem late but it was after the long days of cooking. 3 meals and 1 snack for 220 people...we kept busy.

Caitlyn found a leader that was willing to braid her hair daily. Yeah! She looked fabulous. She was a YCL 1 (youth camp leader 1) this year and so she worked with a group of 2nd year campers. She and her friend Kayla had to do devotionals every night and help them with their camp skills and such every day. They did a fantastic job.

This is a picture of the MASSIVE potato salad we made to serve 200+. It took 2 grown men to lift it down to the eating area and it was yummy

This is a shot of the amazing kitchen we got to work in. It had tons of prep space, tons of cooking space and in the other room was a walk in pantry, a walk in fridge and freezer. They had a separate dishwashing space as well.

Another cute shot of Caitlyn at night...such a beautiful girl!

The scenery was breathtaking. There are bears in the area so they are diligent about no food in the campers cabins and they are diligent about burning the trash and even have a huge cement building for the wet trash to be stored until the garbage pick up just so the bears cannot get into it.

 

This river was about 2 or 3 miles down from the camp but was also spectacular. Just had to include it.

All in all it was a wonderful camp. The theme this year was "Construction Zone, a testimony in the making" and there were things geared to the theme every day and night. Lots of work for such a worthwhile cause of building up Young Women to become leaders, mothers and to strengthen them to withstand this world we live in